membership apart, to argue basically the nra membership is different than the leadership of the nra and also to go to gun dealers like walmart and to say, look responsible gun dealers join us in trying to deal with some of these issues we're trying to get past in terms of background checks or in terms of high capacity magazine clips, and to try to break apart the coalition that's been so hard to break apart over these last years. >> john, what do we see now mayor michael bloomberg has sent some of his staffers down to the white house to work with vice president joe biden. do you expect at the end of the day there will be more executive action than legislative action on gun control? >> that's the big question. when you talk to people who have been in these meetings they say it's a broad series of things they're discussing. the key question, what president obama going to do? he can keep something on the agenda and that's the big question all these folks are waiting to see answered. >> john dickerson, thank you. >>> for the third time in four years alabama is number one, the crimson ti